The Glorious Cause - Out of His Protection

American Political History · Apr 28, 2025 · 25m

In the winter of 1775, the colonists still called themselves loyal subjects of a king they believed would protect them. Then the King’s men spent a single season proving otherwise. A Royal Navy squadron burned the town of Falmouth to the ground before a Maine winter. In Virginia, the royal governor Lord Dunmore offered freedom to any enslaved person who would take up arms against their master — and hundreds ran to him, some marching into battle in coats stitched with the words “Liberty to Slaves,” turning the great slaveholding colony against the Crown almost overnight. And in London…